Hitting animals at speed is one of my biggest motorcycle fears.

Republican in the front, skinhead in the back.

Please, even if we got taken over by Russia completely and openly tomorrow, there is no way we learn a new system of measurement.

What a stupid thing for Tarantino to argue with his star actress over. He should have flown in a well-qualified vintage VW mechanic and his/her crew to have that car checked over and repaired to Thurman’s satisfaction before asking her to drive it at speed.

Tokyo is an incredibly clean city! One of the cleanest in the world. The lack of trash cans is part anti-terrorism after the Tokyo subway sarin attacks in ‘95 (fewer places to hide weapons and other bad stuff), part saving money on waste disposal costs, part cleanliness (New York has trash cans everywhere—which means…

I always think the same thing about all those ridiculous see-through phones and tablets in sci-fi.

I’m partial to the Battlestar Galactica space paper, where the corners are cut off.

Flimsiplast, a see-through acrylic

Raw milk straight from the udder isn’t much of an issue if the animal’s healthy. It only becomes a serious health risk when you bottle and ship it, and let people imagine that it’s still the same as when it left the udder.

I don’t know, I’m kind of addicted to VR. I’m sure biking with the headset would be a pain in the neck (as it were) but once they get lighter I feel like this will almost certainly be a thing.

Jesus, Sarah, chill the fuck out!

It isn’t right now, but it probably will be, for better or worse. He’s pretty much right about it, and you don’t seem to grasp the potential.

It’s gonna feel pretty ****ing real to you, too! Anybody not wearing two million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day, get it?! You think you’re safe and alive? You’re already dead! Everybody! Him, you, you’re dead already! This whole place! Everything you see is gone! You’re the one living in a ****ing dream!!…

Only by your typo ;)

The failing people have with understanding why we haven’t found alien intelligent and civilized life has more to do with distance. Most people, do not understand the almost inconceivable distance between stars, between one end of the galaxy to the other end let alone from one galaxy to the other. When measuring…

You do realize this is a writup on scientific research assessing that very claim, right?

I think “give their kids alcohol” is too generic a statement. My parents had a cocktail together every evening, and mom usually had a glass of wine with dinner and a small sherry with her lunch.

You are good people

I have a horror story from when I used to be a nurse. I hired on at a small town doc’s office. Single doc, me as the nurse, plus a receptionist/manager/med records gal.